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BILL CADY Word Count: 149,227 - At My Friend's Place

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Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 180<br />

We‟d had a few dogs since I was born, but nothing spectacular. There was Mimi,<br />

and I don‟t know what happened to her. Then my folks got Patsy, a cocker spaniel. She<br />

was okay as a pet, but that breed is among the bottom few percent of the stupidest dogs in<br />

the world, so she was no great shakes. A foxhound, (just picture a super-sized beagle),<br />

followed me home when I was about eight and Mom let me keep him. I called him<br />

Spotty. (See how original I was, even as a kid?)<br />

He was a good dog, and I had a lot of fun with him. I knew he was smart because<br />

he didn‟t much care for that David thing. Then my old man wanted to go out and shoot<br />

some crows one Sunday afternoon in the fall. He took me and Spotty along. I had my bb<br />

gun in case I saw a squirrel up close.<br />

Foxhound, or not, Spotty appeared to enjoy chasing rabbits, too. He saw one and<br />

took off after it. A few minutes later we heard a blood-curdling yelp. <strong>My</strong> old man made<br />

me wait while he went to check. When he came back he was dragging Spotty by the skin<br />

of his neck. It turned out the farmer‟s cows were getting out, even with his electric fence,<br />

so he turned the juice way up. It was hot enough to teach a cow never to go there again.<br />

It was also hot enough to kill a foxhound. We took Spotty home and I buried him<br />

in the back yard.<br />

After that, we got Scampy. Half German shorthair, half Brittany spaniel, she<br />

came from good hunting stock. Probably, if she‟d been taken out, she‟d‟ve done a good<br />

job, but my old man didn‟t hunt all that much. She was a beautiful palomino gold. Her<br />

ideal body weight would‟ve been around forty to forty-five pounds. She weighed about<br />

seventy-five. Scampy was a fat little girl, for sure. One funny story about her comes to<br />

mind. She was very well trained about going to the john outside. Never a problem after<br />

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